Lost Frontier : Images and Narrative / Gerry Spence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spence, Gerry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A visual autobiography and portfolio of one of the West's famous trial attorneys. The Lost Frontier features a generous and dazzling collection of the author's own paintings and photographs, vividly embellishing his story of growing up in the Depression and his evolution as an attorney and advocate for the disenfranchised. Most importantly, it uniquely documents his life in and relationship with his beloved state of Wyoming. With an unabashedly iconoclastic view of how things are and how they should be, these images and words could only have been created by Gerry Spence. Gerry Spenc

Contents:

Getting Together; The Early Years; The Boy; The Sheepherder; Ladies of the Night; The Body of Wyoming; The Landscape; Its Towering Mountains of Skies; Its Isolated Towns and Places; Wyoming's Chain of Lost Frontiers; The Mountain Men; Indian Wars; Gold!; The Homesteaders; Takers Come and Takers Go, and a Few Hang On; Coal Miners, Oil Patchers and Others; The People; Native Americans; What and Who Is a Cowboy?; Killing; Unintentional Art; Birth of the Painter; What Is Art? Does It Matter?; Perhaps a New Art Form Has Been Born; The Teacher; Where Are We Going?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4236-3291-5

OCLC:

908095218